"Unlike the past decades, the present moment is lacking in architectural discourse."

-- Lebbeus Woods

#Past Quotes #Architecture Quotes #Moments Quotes

“Have you considered the option of getting the joke? If not, try it now and redeem your soul.”
“In many shamanic societies, if you came to a medicine person complaining of being disheartened, dispirited, or depressed, they would ask one of four questions: 'When did you stop dancing? When did you stop singing? When did you stop being enchanted by stories? When did you stop being comforted by the sweet territory of silence?'”
“On Being John Malkovich and the cinema of the absurd, I do enjoy it. I wish there were more like it. The very fact that there can't be more like it is one of the reasons it's admirable.”
“Enjoy things even when youâ€™re screwing up.”
“To confound the tyranny of man there should exist for a century a third sex, both male and female, and stronger than men. This new sex would prove with the lash that men as well as women are made for its pleasure; and then you would hear men protesting against the tyranny of the hermaphrodite sex and admitting that strength should not be the sole rule of right. Just why do they refuse to grant the women the independence which they would demand from the third sex?”
“Whoe'er he be That tells my faults, I hate him mortally.”
“Mortal as I am, I know that I am born for a day. But when I follow at my pleasure the serried multitude of the stars in their circular course, my feet no longer touch the earth.”
“With the historian it is an article of faith that knowledge of the past is a key to understanding the present.”

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